Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Sybase announced on Wednesday that an Express Edition of Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.2 database for Linux is now available. The version, called ASE Express Edition for Linux, offers core ASE ...

Sybase has released a free production database for Linux. The database maker announced on Wednesday the availability of a version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database for Linux. David ...

What becomes a mighty oak starts as a tiny acorn. Software application development follows this same ageless pattern. And that’s the idea behind Oracle offering a new “Always Free” version of Oracle’s ...

Free or open source databases run hundreds of millions of public-facing and private applications worldwide, but how effective is this technology and how do these products compare? For answers, we ...

During the second day keynote of the Microsoft BUILD conference in September, Satya Nadella, president of the Microsoft Server & Tools Business, announced that the Bing Translator API was available ...

Analyst firm Hydrasight research director John Brand believes even if free databases are now available from the tier-1 vendors, the commercial database is unlikely to disappear completely. “There are ...

Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...